Word: washings
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Joseph Garcia, a researcher in Bellingham, Wash., who created the Sign with Your Baby system, told me that the process can begin with babies as young as seven months but normally kicks in--with Baby demonstrating a sign or two--at around nine months. One of the rewards of simple sign communication, he adds, is that if a baby has a variety of caregivers, they can all understand what the child is saying...
...explain people who vary from the norm that it's insane. People are more than just chemical reactions, and we do not all need to be clones of the same prototype. I applaud the Lipscombs for doing the best they can and striving for better. CAROLYN SUAREZ Olympia, Wash...
Both kids and parents say the lifestyle has its challenges. Eating out--at restaurants, friends' houses and school--can be tricky and sometimes encourages junk-food consumption or even abstaining from eating. Jeff Siegfried, a 13-year-old vegetarian from Bellingham, Wash., says his school-cafeteria offerings are so "pathetic," he often skips lunch. For kids of ranchers, such as Carina Fisher, 17, of Bakersville, Calif., the diet can be alienating. No longer a vegetarian, Fisher recalls unwittingly insulting family friends by attending barbecues and brandings with egg sandwiches in hand...
...interesting components in the Wall of Sound is the horn section, which modulates through the chords without accent, like a pianist who hits a chord once and then holds down the reverb pedal until the next harmonic shift. Other elements define the beat but the horns provide an invisible wash behind everything...
Freeman's reaction was extraordinary. The audience shouted on and on, and she just sat on the track, overwhelmed, letting it wash over her. Everyone was crying and shouting; there were tears on Press Row. Freeman sat there and slowly took off her shoes. She felt that she was among friends, and that's what she does among friends. She sits down and takes off her shoes...